This changed in the wake of a near miss involving confusion over the order of cases on a list.
All students were randomly assigned to the teaching sequence, the order of cases and patients to be encountered.
The SCID procedures by the different subjects were randomized to prevent order effects for both methods (paper and pencil-based SCID1 versus computer-based CB-SCID1) and order of cases interviewed (easy case versus difficult case).
The MRI examinations were performed in a random order of cases and controls between April 2005 and February 2006 on a 1.5-T GE scanner (Waukesha, WI) located at the MR center of the Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden.
These were, in order of case-numbers: factor V Leiden Gln506, angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) I/D, methylene tetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) C677T, prothrombin G20210A, plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 5G allele and glycoprotein IIIa Leu33Pro.
There was no attempt by any team to use the agenda to prioritise the order of case discussions to ensure appropriate time was spent discussing complex cases.
Q I have been pondering ordering cases of wine via the net.
He is also ordering 180 cases of beer for the forthcoming exhibition games instead of the 90 he ordered last season.
Cases and non-cases were similar with respect to birth order (48% of cases vs 46% of non-cases reported having a birth order of 1).
Future studies would need to be of the order of 2700 cases (or advanced cases, depending on the question) to have 80% power to detect an effect of this order with FTO genotype.
